Qualcomm MDM9625 is the powerhouse behind VoLTE and connectivity. This isn't the latest MDM from Qualcomm though...
It's Category 4 LTE UE, not even LTE-Advanced...
iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
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Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#12For those standing right now in the line up to pick this up at the local Apple Retail Store, if you didn't already know, its got 1GB ram. I had hoped at least time it would be 2GB ram, but alas. As the iPhone 4s will struggle running iOS8 in the same manner this model will struggle running future iOS versions maybe iOS 10 or later.
If the last several iterations of the iPhone have had the same RAM, while being capable of running the newest version of iOS fine, wouldn't that suggest that iOS memory requirements haven't been rising significantly and that something else is responsible for percieved slowdown on upgrade?
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#13Not sure why there is so much gushing over the optical image stabilisation stuff; been in Lumias for over a year now (920/1020 and above).
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#14Pretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.
I find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately want to be able to use cost/power efficient computers for desktop use. I waste so much electricity using this hulking tower where I don't need to use it to it's full potential 99% of the time.
I think you mean Facebook/web machine, not phone.
Which is exactly what most people used their (not at all locked down, similarly powerful) laptops for before smartphones existed.
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#15Pretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.
I find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately want to be able to use cost/power efficient computers for desktop use. I waste so much electricity using this hulking tower where I don't need to use it to it's full potential 99% of the time.
I don't think there is a need to use specialized phone hardware as a desktop computer when computers like Intel's NUC have an idle power consumption of only 6.8W while being an order of magniture faster: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7566/intels-haswell-nuc-d54250...
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#16Not sure why there is so much gushing over the optical image stabilisation stuff; been in Lumias for over a year now (920/1020 and above).
I would guess that there will have been more iPhone 6+ orders by the end of this month than Lumias-with-OIS ever. That's why people are gushing.
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#17Not sure why there is so much gushing over the optical image stabilisation stuff; been in Lumias for over a year now (920/1020 and above).
I would guess that there will have been more iPhone 6+ orders by the end of this month than Lumias-with-OIS ever. That's why people are gushing.
Probably right but credit where credit is due.
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#18Pretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.
I find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately want to be able to use cost/power efficient computers for desktop use. I waste so much electricity using this hulking tower where I don't need to use it to it's full potential 99% of the time.
What about Android micro-computers on an USB key?
http://www.laptopmag.com/android-sticks
With a little hackery you should be able to do pretty much everything within the storage / processing power budget.
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#19Not sure why there is so much gushing over the optical image stabilisation stuff; been in Lumias for over a year now (920/1020 and above).
I would guess that there will have been more iPhone 6+ orders by the end of this month than Lumias-with-OIS ever. That's why people are gushing.
That is also the result of people gushing.
Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
#20Qualcomm MDM9625 is the powerhouse behind VoLTE and connectivity. This isn't the latest MDM from Qualcomm though...
Because there isn't enough 20nm Fab for the MDM9635.